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Sounds and the City Popular Music, Place and Globalization [Paperback]

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  • Category: Books (Music)
  • ISBN-10:  1349448907
  • ISBN-10:  1349448907
  • ISBN-13:  9781349448906
  • ISBN-13:  9781349448906
  • Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan
  • Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-Apr-2014
  • Pub Date:  01-Apr-2014
  • SKU:  1349448907-11-SPRI
  • SKU:  1349448907-11-SPRI
  • Item ID: 100887473
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This book explores the ways in which Western-derived music connects with globalization, hybridity, consumerism and the flow of cultures. Both as local terrain and as global crossroads, cities remain fascinating spaces of cultural contestation and meaning-making via the composing, playing, recording and consumption of popular music.Introduction: Sounds and the City; Brett Lashua, Stephen Wagg, and Karl Spracklen 1. Heart of the Country? The Construction of Nashville as the Capital of Country Music; Diane Pecknold 2. Birmingham's Post-Industrial Metal; Deena Weinstein 3. Black and Brown Get Down: Cultural Politics, Chicano Music, and Hip-Hop in Racialized Los Angeles; Anthony Mac?as 4. Juidos 'n' Decaf Italians: Irony, Blasphemy, and Jewish Shtick; Steven Lee Beeber 5. 'Why I Decided to Pretend I was American, I Will Never Know': Rock 'n Roll and 'The Sixties' in an English Town; Stephen Wagg 6. Tamla-Motown in the UK: Transatlantic Reception of American Rhythm and Blues; Andrew Flory 7. 'How Many Divisions Does Ozzy Osbourne Have?' Some Thoughts on Politics, Heavy Metal Music and the 'Clash of Civilisations'; Stephen Wagg 8. Indieglobalization and the Triumph of Punk in Indonesia; Jeremy Wallach 9. Sounds of a 'Rotting City': Punk in Russia's Arctic Hinterland;Hilary Pilkington 10. True Norwegian Black Metal: The Globalized, Mythological Reconstruction of the Second Wave of BM in 1990s Oslo; Karl Spracklen 11. Continental Drift: The Politics and Poetics of African Hip-Hop; Paul Kahlil Saucier 12. 'One Day On Earth': Music, Documentary Filmmaking, and Global Soundscapes; Brett Lashua and Joseph Minadeo 13. Intersecting Rhythms: The Spatial Production of Local Canadian Heavy Metal and Urban Aboriginal Hip-Hop in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Karen M. Fox and Gabrielle Riches 14. Reconstruction's Soundtrack; Eric Porter 15. We're Going to Graceland: Globalisation and the Reimagining of Memphis; Wanda Rushing 16. Characterising the Cold War: Music and Memories of Berlin, 19lc(
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